This November, California voters will go to the polls to decide if their state will join Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon in allowing the recreational use of marijuana as part of the Recreational Marijuana Initiative.
Back in 1996, Californians voted "Yes" to Proposition 215 making it the…

Since Colorado made recreational legal marijuana in 2012, the number of kids requiring hospital admission from accidental exposure to the drug has doubled.
Admissions at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora because of unintentional exposure to marijuana rose from 1.2 visits per 100,000 kids two…

Opioid painkillers actually cause more pain than the pain they're supposed to be treating. And it can be long term and very severe, says a new study from the University of Colorado.
The fact that opioids cause pain has been known for decades. But the phenomenon called "opioid-induced hyperalgesia"…

In spite of her best efforts to help her son overcome his addiction, Justin Phillips lost 20-year-old Aaron to a heroin overdose in October, 2013.
Countless grief-stricken moms across America have had to face similar unthinkable tragedies like heroin overdose. Only a few manage to turn such a…

Two major drugstore chains, CVS and Walgreens, will be offering the opioid overdose-reversal medication naloxone to the public without the need for a prescription in at least 35 states and DC by the end of this year.
Under physician-approved protocols, CVS has already established the program in…

Here's a little message for anyone contemplating a special visit to Colorado to sample the recently-legalized local weed.
Don't go. Just say no. Or you might just wind up in the hospital.
The state's legalized recreational marijuana has sparked flocks of visitors from out of state. But they're…

(Novus writes inspirational stories of people in the news who have overcome addiction. This is not to infer that these people are connected to Novus Medical Detox Center but simply to provide hope and encouragement to those fighting addiction.)
In early October last year (2015), tens of thousands…

Susan Shapiro, best-selling American author of nine books and an award-winning professor of writing at The New School and New York University, says a serious, 27-year addiction to marijuana almost ruined her life. And because of how marijuana negatively impacted her life, and new scientific…

In the early summer of 2010, a special group of cyclists — some on regular road bicycles, and a few riding specialized cycles — experienced America in a very close-up and personal way.
A core team of nearly 20 men and women left San Francisco, CA, on May 22, 2010, and traversed nearly 4,000…

How important is one’s personal survival? How far would you, or could you, go, if your very existence was threatened?
Faced with no other choice for survival than to cross a seemingly uncrossable boundary, history tells us that many people will choose to cross that line, and deal with the…